Her husband
contributed a two-page preface, saying that so far as they knew no collection of travels covered the last forty years, and that the author had been more than a mere copyist.
Reception
Mary Louisa Molesworth
Mary Anne Barker
, sailing from England to join her husband
in Mauritius in early 1878, took a copy of The Cuckoo Clock which she had specially requested from her publisher, Macmillan
.
Gilderdale, Betty. The Seven Lives of Lady Barker. Canterbury University Press.